Ulrich Zwingli 1484-1531 Swiss reformer. Ulrich Zwingli was educated at schools in Basel and Burn, Switzerland, and Vienna, Austria. He became a parish priest in 1506 and, on becoming pastor of the great Minster Church in Zurich, he began to preach...
William Tyndale 1494-1536 Bible translator and reformer. William Tyndale was ordained as a priest in 1521, having studied Greek diligently at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, specifically the Textus Receptus. He conferred with Luther in Germany,...
William Bell Riley 1861-1947 Baptist pastor and educator. W.B. Riley was born in Green County, Indiana, but soon moved with his parents to Boone County, Kentucky, where they lived in a log cabin. He spent his formative years working the fields from...
Charles Wesley1707-1788 Some have described Charles Wesley as the "first Methodist." They point out that he was the one who first brought together a group of like-minded Christians to the "Holy Club" at Oxford. Three days before his brother...
February 12, 1865 • Ex-Slave Henry Garnet Addressed U. S. House of RepresentativesPresbyterian minister Henry Garnet was the first African American to preach a sermon in the House of Representatives.On this day, February 12, 1865, the galleries of...
Dr. Os Guinness is Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum, a seminar-style forum for senior executives and political leaders that engages the leading ideas of our day in the context of faith. Dr. Guinness was born in China, where his parents were...
Over the past 50 years, many Christians have been engaged in the process of reexamining the role of the Church in Germany during the Nazi era. What has become evident in this undertaking is the depth of the chasm between the ideals the Church had...
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was born at "Grasmere" near Lexington, Kentucky, November 5, 1851 and died at Princeton, New Jersey, February 17, 1921. His progenitors of English and Scotch-Irish origin, on both his paternal and maternal sides, were...
Ira Sankey1840 - 1908"I felt not the slightest inclination at the time that the answer would be 'yes,' for it was no small matter to resign a well-paying job, break up my home and move to a strange city." Ira Sankey on his initial reaction to...
